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- From: hshlswe1@w222zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Hilmar Schlegel)
- Subject: Re: A Problem with Reinstalling Mathematica for Windows
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:35:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.143901.6149@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, cfw2@po.CWRU.Edu
- (Charles F. Wells) writes:
- >
- > I run Mathematica for Windows on a Gateway 486-33 machine with
- >
- > an ATI Graphics Ultra Video board. Today, I experimented with
- >
- > going into 800 x 600 video mode instead of the usal 640 x 480.
- >
- > I then used the Defaults window in Mma to enlarge the input and
- >
- > output files. This did not take effect in the Newnb-1 window,
- >
- > so I exited Mma and tried to restart it. It froze at 11%. I
- >
- > tried many things, including turning the machine off and on and
- >
- > changing back to 640 x 480 mode. The same thing always
- >
- > happened. So I reinstalled Mathematica. It worked now, but the
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This seems to be the only way for
- getting a "cleam" Math-installat. The program is generally
- rather unstable and produces sometimes history dependent error
- states of the machine.
- This is a"must" due to the responses from the "support":
- They consider this as their "standard" & don't care about interferences
- with other software.
-
- Defaults window was in a horrible mess. It showed part of the
- >
- > font commands that the notebook normally does not show.
- >
- >
- >
- > I suspected that the installation process had inserted a new
- >
- > defaults.ma file but had left an incompatible defaults.mb file
- >
- > on the disk. So I renamed the defaults.mb file and reloaded
- >
- > defaults checking the no binary option. Now everything works
- >
- > fine.
- >
- Be happy that you managed the problem at your site: other sites other
- problems!
-
- >
- > I don't know what caused the problem originally, but I thought
- >
- > others would want to know about this problem that reinstallation
- >
- > can cause.
- I'm not an expert in this field but I bet it is more philosophy
- than debugging.
- The glamourous surface of a progam is not all.... but some care with
- the inner workings is needed too. In my opinion it is a pitty for some
- pretty algorithms to live in such an environment.
- Maybe a "remake" of the kernel would enjoy the masses.
- Good luck,
- Hilmar Schlegel (hshlswe1@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de)
-
- >
- >
- >
- >
- > Charles Wells
- >
- > Department of Mathematics
- >
- > Case Western Reserve University
- >
- > 10900 Euclid Avenue
- >
- > Cleveland, OH 44106-7058
- >
- > 216-368-2893
-
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